The Supreme Court ruled Friday that it's too early to decide whether President Trump can exclude illegal immigrants from the census count he will send to Congress to decide how House seats are divided up among the states over the next decade.
In unsigned opinion the court sent the case back to the lower courts with orders to be dismissed.
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The census did count illegal immigrants, and will produce a full count of all residents in the country as of April 1.
Multiple lower courts had ruled against Mr. Trump, arguing he was breaking the laws governing the census.
Dale Ho, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who argued against Mr. Trump before the high court, said the lower court decisions show the president's plans are still in trouble.
The government has admitted in court that it will be difficult to slice out most illegal immigrants, because their identities are not well enough established to exclude them individually.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/18/supreme-court-puts-ruling-census-count-excludes-il/
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